According to Reuters, French news agencies, in response to the attempted attack on the Gaza aid fleet in the night, Italian Defence Minister Guaidó Croseto expressed strong condemnation on 24 local time.

In a statement, Crosetto said he had sent an Italian naval vessel to the fleet to provide possible rescue, ¡°In order to ensure assistance to the Italian citizens on board, I spoke with the prime minister and authorized the Italian Navy¡¯s multi-purpose escort ship ¡®Fraser¡¯ to immediately intervene, which was sailing north of Crete at the time.¡±

Previously, according to media reports such as the British "Guardian" and the European version of the US "Political News Network", the organizer of the "Global Fortitude Fleet" delivering humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip stated that some of its ships were in Greece on September 23, local time. The waters southern of Crete were attacked by multiple Israeli drones. The day before, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying that Israel would prevent the "Global Fortitude Fleet" transporting humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip from arriving in the Gaza Strip.

The ¡°Global Resistance Fleet¡± consists of about 20 ships, members from 44 countries and regions, seeking to break Israel¡¯s blockade of the Gaza Strip. On the 8th and 9th of this month, the two ships of the ¡°Global Resistance Fleet¡± set fire in Tunisia¡¯s port. Tunisia officials denied the first incident, as the fleet organizers said was caused by the Israeli drone attack, but identified the second as a ¡°premeditated attack¡±. International media predicted that the ¡°Global Resistance Fleet¡± will be intercepted by the Israeli army. South Africa, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Ireland, Slovenia, Brazil, Colombia, Turkey and 16 other countries foreign ministers issued a joint statement on 16th, calling for the ¡°Global Resistance Fleet¡± security.